[B-Greek] 1Co 13:7 PANTA believe all?
Carl Conrad
cwconrad2 at mac.com
Sat May 14 05:38:22 EDT 2011
On May 13, 2011, at 9:28 PM, Oun Kwon wrote:
> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 8:24 AM, nebarry <nebarry at verizon.net> wrote:
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>> Well, yeah. The thought that occurs to me is that all accusatives,
>> including what we call the direct object, are adverbial -- after all, the
>> d.o. modifies the action of the verb by indicating the direction of the
>> action, so to speak. Here, it's part of a series (nicely done from a
>> rhetorical perspective), all with verbs that normally take accusatives. I
>> agree that a native Greek speaker wouldn't have given the grammar a second
>> thought, but I can also here him asking the question, "Does Paul mean that
>> literally?" or some such... So I think that it does involve hermeneutics
>> and theology beyond simply the grammar and syntax.
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>> N.E. Barry Hofstetter
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> I am trying to come out of fogginess on this. The 'accusative' as an
> 'object' actually reflects my thinking in English grammar.
> Now, my problem is that I only recall 'PISTEUW + dative' and 'PISTEUW
> + EIS (EPI)'. Would 'accusative' belong to this group to give same
> nuance? Or should go to the direction of what NIV did? Are there any
> other examples I can see and compare other than 1Co?
You're looking in the wrong place and ignoring the context (context, context,
context!). This is not a matter of how the verb PISTEUEIN construes with
its complements. Rather it's an adverbial usage of PANTA in this entire
very rhetorical sequence:
1Cor. 13:7 πάντα στέγει, πάντα πιστεύει, πάντα ἐλπίζει, πάντα ὑπομένει.
PANTA STEGEI, PANTA PISTEUEI, PANTA ELPIZEI, PANTA hUPOMENEI.
Paul is talking about the behavior of AGAPH, that is, about the behavior of one
whose behavior is governed by AGAPH: That person behaves with AGAPH
not at some times or some places or half-heartedly but WHOLLY, ALTOGETHER.
BDAG s.v. PAS:
d. subst.
β. πάντα all things, everything.
πάντα four times as anaphora (rhetorical repetition) 1 Cor 13:7 (cp.
Libanius, Or. 3 p. 275, 4 πάντα φθεγγόμενοι, πάντα ἐργαζόμενοι,
πάντα χαριζόμενοι).—The acc. of specification stands almost in the sense of
an adv. (B-D-F §154; Rob. 487) πάντα in all respects, in every way, altogether
(Hom. et al.; Aelian, VH 12, 25; Jos., Ant. 9, 166; SibOr 3, 205; Ath. 35, 2)
Ac 20:35 (perh. always, as Ps.-Lucian, Asin. 22 p. 590); 1 Cor 9:25b. πάντα
πᾶσιν ἀρέσκω (s. ἀρέσκω 2a) 10:33; 11:2.
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
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